EA-18G Growlers from VAQ-141 will replace VAQ-136 at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan in early spring this year.
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HMS Illustrious underway for cold weather training
HMS Illustrious sails from Portsmouth on Friday for eight weeks of arduous cold weather training north of the Arctic Circle.
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Pentagon push back purchase of 24 V-22s
The Pentagon will delay the purchase of 24 V-22s till after fiscal 2017. The plan to buy 122 aircraft remains the same.
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Ramstein to host NATO’s missile shield command
NATO’s missile shield command center will be in Ramstein Air Base, in Germany, a NATO spokesman said on Thursday.
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Production of Distributed Targeting System started
Boeing announced that it has started production of the new Distributed Targeting System (DTS) for the F/A-18E/F. DTS is on schedule to achieve Initial Operational Capability in January 2013.
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